Igriș Monastery
| Igriș Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
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| location |
 Romania Timiș County |
| Coordinates: | 46 ° 4 '45 " N , 20 ° 47' 7" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
453 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1179 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1526 |
| Mother monastery | Pontigny monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Pontigny monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
Kerz Monastery (1202) |
The Igriș Monastery (Hungarian Egres ; German Egresch ) is a former Cistercian abbey in today's Romania . It was in the village of Igriș in today's municipality of Sânpetru Mare, about halfway between Szeged in Hungary and Arad on the left bank of the Marosch River and about 10 km northeast of Sânnicolau Mare .
history
The monastery was built at the instigation of Agnes de Châtillon , the first wife of the Hungarian King Béla III. , Founded in 1179 as a subsidiary of the Pontigny Primary Abbey . The subsidiaries Kerz in Transylvania (1202) and Vérteskeresztúr Monastery in Hungary (1214) were founded in Igriș . In 1235 King Andrew II of Hungary was buried in the monastery. The monastery was destroyed during the Mongol invasion in 1242, but then rebuilt. In 1526 the monastery , which was completely destroyed during the Turkish era and united with the diocese of Csanád , came to an end.
literature
- Ferenc Levente Hervay: The History of the Cistercians in Hungary. In: Jakob Perschy (Red.): 800 years of the Cistercians in the Pannonian region. 1996, Klostermarienberg (= Burgenland Research. Special Volume . 18, ZDB -ID 1448585-0 ). Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, Eisenstadt 1996, pp. 27–42.
Buildings and plant
Ruins of the monastery are still visible.